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This book investigates the rise of Ronald Reagan and other conservatives in the late 1970s, and how they have succeeded in realizing their goal of attaining an "end of history" state in American life. They accomplished this by tapping into the traditional American values of conformity and the desire for material gain, first established by the Puritans and other early explorers to the New World.

This book is the third and concluding part of a study on the development of the American social welfare state. Here I discuss human nature, American culture, and the future prospects for human progress in America and around the world.

This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism.

This work is an examination of Darwin's theory of evolution, in particular his belief in competition as the driving force behind human development.

This book is an investigation of the word "democracy", to determine how the common definition meets the actual political reality in today's nations that call themselves democracies. We also try to determine whether the political process called democracy is leading to governments that are leading to man providing the highest quality of life for a nation's citizens, or whether these so-called democracies need reform to enable man to create a better future, and reach "the end of history."

This book is an examination of the current unease and uncertainty in America at the beginning of the Trump era.

This book is an investigation into the current debate about income inequality among intellectuals. I intend to show that this focus is misplaced and should be centered on the issue of assisting the most unfortunate in a given society.

This book examines how the human mind, in particular that of the American working class, navigates the various cultural factors that have composed the American economy.

This audiobook is about the development of the American social welfare state, from FDR to LBJ, with particular emphasis on the ideas (social, political, and economic) that have formed the basis of America's social welfare state.

This book examines and compares the concept of justice from the French philosopher Albert Camus and the American philosopher John Rawls.

This book examines the phenomenon of human group dynamics - where when three or more people gather, it creates a mind of the crowd which is greater than the sum of its parts.

This book examines the specific powers of the human female, which are counter to the dominant beliefs in American culture.

This book examines the influence of propaganda in American life....

This book examines the disturbing trend toward social and political conformity in America in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

This book examines the life and career of the American actor and singer Cheryl Ladd.

This book explores the idea that America has only one political party, the Republican Party....

This book explores the theme of existentialism in four films by the American film director Stanley Kubrick.

This book outlines a new way of thinking that can greatly increase your understanding of the world—and of your own personal experience.

This book explores the differing views of reality of the philosopher Hegel and the naturalist Darwin....

The current discussion among liberals in America is that democracy is at stake if Donald J. Trump Sr. wins the American presidency in 2024. But the almost unexamined question is whether America was ever a democracy. This book examines the common definition of the word "democracy" and argues that it is a meaningless word, and does not describe the political reality in America.